Why the French are drinking less wine

Alcohol is a depressant, right enough, but the first thing it suppresses is one's inhibitions,so you get a wey-hey - what the hell period. Only later does it bring you down, often causing people to become maudlin.

French people that I have known were often stingy with the bottle, one little glass with dinner and then put the bottle away for tomorrow - just when I fancied another!

Perhaps they are realising the health risks?

I can't understand why the article refers to wine as an anti-depressant. Isn't alcohol supposed to be a depressant. Or, it just makes you feel more of whatever you are feeling when you drink it. ie more depressed, if you are that already.